Description
Volcano Escape is a frantic ESL class board game that tasks two to six teams of students with escaping an island before the volcano erupts. Your students answer questions and talk, roll the dice and move their tokens to the end of the board. The first to reach the life boat can escape and win! The other teams are not so lucky.
Cool Stuff about Volcano Escape
- Volcano Escape is designed for interactive class boards but it can easily be played with a mouse or online.
- You can adjust the game board and make play a bit different each time you play.
- More than 10 different arrangements of forwards and backwards you can select when playing.
- Randomized option for forwards and backwards arrows that changes each time the dice is rolled.
- Adjust the size of the dice. Want a faster game? Use a bigger dice. Longer game? Smaller dice.
- Animated game
- The volcano erupts at the end of the game - revealing the winner.
- Volcanic ash falls as the game is played.
- Want a longer game? Set how many of a team's pieces need to make it to the boat to win.
- Insert your own questions directly into the game simply by editing a text file.
Volcano Escape can be used to...
- practice any newly learned vocabulary or topic.
- review old content.
- warm up students at the beginning of class.
- winding down students toward the end of class.
- reward your class for their good behavior.
- add fun and excitement to your review lessons.
Grade Level
Suitable for all levels
Compatible with
Windows
Volcano Escape - No Prep ESL Class Board Game
How to Play Volcano Escape
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Choose any optional rules that you'd like to implement when playing the game.
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Start the game by moving one game piece to the start space for each team that will play.
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Determine play order: will teams go one by one or will they all play at the same time and compete to answer questions?
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Ask a question.
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The team that answers rolls the dice. Move that team's token equal to the number of spaces revealed.
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If the piece stops on a space with an arrow, follow the arrow to its destination (either gaining ground or losing it).
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Repeat until a team reaches the escape boat.
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Click win. Choose the team that won. The volcano erupts and the winning team escapes.
Game Modes Available in Volcano Escape
Team Mode: Teams compete to answer questions and escape the island before the volcano explodes. There's only room for one team to escape on the boat so they must be fast!
Optional Family Team Mode: Select how many of a team's token must reach the boat for that team to win. The pieces represent a team's family. The entire family must escape to win. For a longer game, you can select a higher amount of pieces. For a normal game, simply select one piece.
Optional Arrows On/Off Team Mode: The arrow indicators can be customized to fit your needs for the game. There are several different layouts that you can choose from. This also includes turning them off completely as well as randomizing them with every roll of the dice. Things can get pretty crazy with these arrows!
Question Prompts
There are four question prompts that you can use when playing this game. You can change between these at will. The game download includes directions on how to prepare prompts 2-4.
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No prompt: Simply ask a question to your students without a prompt in the game. Ask any question you like. Using this mode takes no preperation before starting the game.
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Text Question Prompt: Prepare text questions and answers in advance using the included text document file. This prompt will display your prepared questions when playing.
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Picture Prompt: This prompt displays pictures that you've prepared in advance.
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Keyword Prompt: This prompt displays a set of keywords that you've prepared in advance.
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